It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. In the first hour of the show,

we spoke with Senator Andy Kim about the U.S. involvement in Iran after President Trump addressed the nation

last night. But that's not the only military intervention with regime change, sort of a goal,

and sort of not, that we've seen recently. The U.S. also seized Venezuelan President

Nicolas Maduro, as you know, in January. Now we'll take the president at his word

and ask, is Cuba next? Yeah, Cuba's going to be next. Cuba's going to be, Cuba's a mess. It's a failing

country. And they're going to be next. Within a short period of time, it's going to fail. And we will be

there to help it out. We'll be there to help our great Cuban Americans out who were thrown out of

Cuba. In many cases, their family members were mutilated and killed by Castro. Help Cuba is going to be

next. Yeah. President Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force

Juan last week. So what is next for Cuba? We're going to dig into that question in a minute

with two guests, but a little context first. The capture of Maduro resulted in Cuba losing one of

its major sources of fuel. And since then, the U.S. has imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, plunging the island into an

energy crisis.

As of this week, there's been one small exception to that blockade.

Maybe you saw it in the news.

Trump personally allowed a sanctioned Russian oil tanker to dock in Cuba this week. The first oil

shipment the island has received since January, according to the reports I've seen. Here is President

Trump taking questions from the press aboard Air Force One on that.

If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it.

So it's unclear what the White House actually wants here, and the question of what comes

next for Cuba is still very much open. So with me now, to try to make sense of it all,

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